Names: Elica & Amitayus
Status: Married
Been together since: 2016
Life and open relationships on the Tantric Thai island Koh Phangan
Amitayus: I’m from Portland, Oregon in the States. I have a degree in Religious Studies from university, so I have always been interested in spirituality. Around two years into really starting to open up to the spiritual journey and transitioning from intellectual interest to embodied practice, I headed out to an island called Koh Phangan in Thailand.
I was heading there for yoga teacher training and was fresh on my path. Everything felt new and exciting!
On this island, spirituality and alternative lifestyles are embraced. Many people have a Tantric way of life and open relationships are very common. Personally, I wasn’t heading there for love, I was seeking wisdom.
My plan was to go back to Oregon after my training and settle down. Those plans sure shifted and I ended up living on the island for many years, studying and teaching yoga and doing many other things.
During those years, I was in many different states of mind. When I first got there, I’d started dating a woman. It wasn’t until our third date that she’d told me that she was seeing other people. I was left with the option of either ending it or continuing with her in an open relationship.
In the community there, most of the people I’d spoken to always mentioned the spiritual benefits of open relationships. I decided to try it out.
